Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jan 02 2013 - 12:52:27 EST


On 01/02/2013 09:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:
>
>> Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could
>> another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds
>> that automatically use a config file found at a hard-coded location?
>
> Just pass the config file as the first argument?
>

CONFIG_CMDLINE can certainly become available to the stub... it's a
compile-time constant.

-hpa

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